Great photos Rick, esp. with the starlings for scale. They look like fleas next to the wedgies! Reminds me of this NT photo I took many years ago. We were driving along the Stuart Hwy which was still dirt in those days, when we saw in the distance what we thought was a man standing in the middle of the road. As we got closer he appeared to be standing on something, which turned out to be a dead roo. However it wasn't until we got quite close that we realized it wasn't a man, when he started to take flight down the road. I caught up with him and followed close behind for several hundred metres as he lumbered along trying to get airborne, with a full belly and a VC Valiant driving up his arse! We couldn't believe the size of him, he completely dwarfed the bonnet. Wingspan must have been a good 3 metres, we never knew they grew that big. Eventually he got up enough air speed to bank away from the road, and we watched him lumber away and slowly gain enough height to land in a tree. I screwed in my old 200mm telephoto and took this photo from the car, then hopped out and tried to approach him for a closer shot. Unfortunately he took off again before I could get much closer, so the only record I have is this giant chook in a tree!
